"This volume brings together essays from international experts based on the 60th anniversary seminar held at Imperial War Museum London in 2005. It also includes testimony from survivors, eyewitness accounts from liberators and relief workers, and the scripts of two BBC radio broadcasts. Much has been written on Belsen; with the benefits of new documentation and a rigorous scholarly approach, this book offers an original and at times controversial reassessment of the camp, its liberation and the way Belsen is remembered in Britain and Germany."--Jacket.Per saperne di più…

Conference proceedings.Includes index.Published in association with The Imperial War Museum.

Descrizione:

xii, 250 pages : illustrations

Contenuti:

A brief history of Bergen-Belsen / David Cesarani --
A survivor's memories of liberation / Anita Lasker-Wallfisch --
The first day in the camp / Dick Williams --
The medical relief effort at Belsen / Ben Shephard --
British relief teams in Belsen concentration camp : emergency relief and the perception of survivors / Johannes-Dieter Steinert --
Andrew Matthews and the two Sachselová sisters / Rainer Schulze --
A few words to explain the origin of my drawings / Eva Macourková --
The filming of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and its impact on the understanding of the Holocaust / Toby Haggith --
What wireless listeners learned : some lesser-known BBC broadcasts about Belsen / Suzanne Bardgett --
"And I was only a child" : children's testimonies, Bergen-Belsen 1945 / Boaz Cohen --
The liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp as seen by some British official war artists in 1945 / Antoine Capet --
From "This Belsen business" to "Shoah business" : history, memory, and heritage, 1945-2005 / Tony Kushner --
Forgetting and remembering : memories and memorialisation of Bergen-Belsen / Rainer Schulze.

Abstract:

"This volume brings together essays from international experts based on the 60th anniversary seminar held at Imperial War Museum London in 2005. It also includes testimony from survivors, eyewitness accounts from liberators and relief workers, and the scripts of two BBC radio broadcasts. Much has been written on Belsen; with the benefits of new documentation and a rigorous scholarly approach, this book offers an original and at times controversial reassessment of the camp, its liberation and the way Belsen is remembered in Britain and Germany."--Jacket.

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